Re: [ANN] Lua 5.1.5 now available

[Lorenzo Donati <lorenzodonatibz@...>]

On 17/02/2012 10.41, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:
> Lua 5.1.5 has been frozen and is now available at
> 	http://www.lua.org/ftp/lua-5.1.5.tar.gz
>
> MD5     2e115fe26e435e33b0d5c022e4490567  -
> SHA1    b3882111ad02ecc6b972f8c1241647905cb2e3fc  -
>
> Lua 5.1.5 applies all patches listed in
> 	http://www.lua.org/bugs.html#5.1.4
>
> It is now the current release of Lua 5.1.
>
> Like all minor releases, this is strictly a bug-fix release; no new features
> or improvements have been added, except for an updated reference manual.
>
> We strongly recommend that Lua 5.1.5 be build *without* compatibility
> with Lua 5.0, which remains turned on by default in luaconf.h. To turn
> it off, just add the lines below in the "Local configuration" section at
> the end of luaconf.h:
>
> #undef LUA_COMPAT_VARARG
> #undef LUA_COMPAT_MOD
> #undef LUA_COMPAT_LSTR
> #undef LUA_COMPAT_GFIND
> #undef LUA_COMPAT_OPENLIB
>
> We thank everyone for their feedback on Lua 5.1, especially those that have
> sent bug reports and other suggestions.
>
> Enjoy.
> --lhf

Sorry for the late reply. I didn't have the time to update to 5.1.5 till 
now (last version I checked was 5.1.5-rc1).


It doesn't compile for me under Windows XP SP2 + mingw GCC 4.5.2: the 
problem seems to be the "comment" at line 51 of in src/Makefile:


	# DLL needs all object files

it isn't recognized as such and it causes an error when make processes 
that line.

Removing that comment solves the issue.

If I understand correctly, comments cannot be placed inside a recipe: 
quoting make manual (v.3.82), section "3.1 What Makefiles Contain":


"Comments within a recipe are passed to the shell, just as with any 
other recipe text. The shell decides how to interpret it: whether or not 
this is a comment is up to the shell. "


And it seems that Windows shell doesn't like it: one of the errors spit 
out by make during (failed) compilation is:

gcc: #: No such file or directory


Cheers.
-- Lorenzo